Giovanni Profeta
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Swimming through life one stroke at a time.
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Marillion - An hour before it's dark
After having the proper time to digest this content in orderly fashion, I think it's time for me to let my review of this album come out. This time I want to do something different, why don't we go track by track and then I'll give you my final thoughts on this work?
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Beat
The lost art of listening to music Part II
I remember very fondly the Hi-fi set up my Dad used to have in our living room. It had this huge speakers, a nice turntable and cassette deck. My Dad used (I said used because he now seldom listens to music, he lost interest in it) to listen to the mind-blowing arrangements of Ray Conniff, Julio Iglesias' filtered voice and the sharp sound of Herp Alpert trumpet. He used to sit in the middle of the living room, a glass of spirit in his hand, my Mother by his side and those lovely melodies as soundtrack for quality family time.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Beat
The lost art of listening to music Part I
Without any doubt, music is art, and proper listening it’s got to be considered art too. Our fast paced life has plummet our enjoyment of the pleasure of listening to music, now we don’t seem to give music its true value. Stay with me, not everything is lost, nowadays we got a vast array of music available at our fingertips. Like never before music is available 24/7 on a myriad of platforms, but is it truly a good thing to have all that music available? But first I want you to stay with me and take a deep dive into our past to learn a bit more about how music was listened in a distant past.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Beat
Jethro Tull's "The Zealot Gene" Album review
Here we go, album number 22 for this legendary band. This is the follow up from their 2003 "Jethro Tull's Christmas album." It has been a while since the band ventured into new recordings. Ian Anderson gave us some interesting music with his "Thick as a brick II" and "Homo Erraticus." Both highly anticipated by me on release date.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Beat
Homer against the establishment
EXT. SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD. DAY. Establishing shot of a regular suburban house. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY Homer Simpson is sitting by the living room table. While watching as an observer at a chaotic family breakfast, he starts to feel a bit uneasy with the way things turned out for him. While in his early 20s, he was optimistic about the future, he envisioned a life of carefree excitement, cruising along in his muscle car. Now… a slave of routine and boredom, in a beat up sedan.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Fiction
The sea wolf
The sea is an important part of who I am. It captured my imagination since the very beginning. There’s something on it that makes me think of the sea and its habitants every single day. I try to be as much as I can among water, it could be by swimming, sailing, freediving, or simply by having a little walk along the bay. It doesn’t matter, the sea nurtures me, rocks me, comfort me. On the sea you might feel there’s no one beside you, but someone always listen, believe me, someone always listen.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Families
I dare you
From the distance, it looks like the hulls are literarily making clean incisions on the almost flat surface of the sea. Sights and sounds from the sailing club fade away on their stern. A soft breeze caressed the main sail with charming politeness as a big old sun warms the deck's surface without any constrains. With her hand on the tiller, our skipper manages to steer the boat towards a one of a kind destination, this place, is the perfect scenario to indulge in the affairs of the heart.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Filthy
Lady luck is golden
This convoluted chapter in my life started when I went to Spain, specifically to the city of Barcelona; the plan was to sail along the Catalonian waters with friends from all over the world. The voyage was scheduled to last almost two weeks; 6 sailing boats in total, a blend of nationalities. It was a real melting pot: Danish, Scottish, Swedish, British, Germans. A dream come true for a sailing enthusiast like me.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Filthy
Less is more
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” Words from the great philosopher Seneca are really accurate on the topic Michael Smith discussed on this interesting lecture called “Is big data killing creativity?” He need to address this subject very carefully. According to his studies, a program rules what you should see, statistics knows what’s best for you.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in FYI
Brian Wilson's new album
At almost 90, Brian Wilson takes the time to reflect on his work and grand us the opportunity to hear his most beloved tunes the way he hears them. This new record is a full instrumental recollection of Beach boys tunes with a lot of soul as the main ingredient.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Beat
Your brain on music
Some say that when musicians pick up their instruments fireworks explode inside their brain. That’s a romantic way to explain the way music affect our brains. On the outside, they may seem calm and focused, while inside their brains a tsunami of brain connections takes over and fire up multiple areas inside they brain. You might ask, how do they know all this? Well, in recent years, neuroscientists have gone a long way to study and monitor the way the human brain works. Armed with an army of inventions like the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Positron Emission Topography. When people hook up to such machines, Neuroscientist discovered that when people do math or read, they could pin point specific areas where activity could be observed, giving us a wide inside look of how our mind respond to different stimulus.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Longevity
Music as a healing tool
Music therapy has ancient roots. According to my research, Pythagoras used music as remedy for physical maladies in Ancient times. The Greeks were the first to document this, but I’m sure that way before them music was part of many healing rituals all over the surface of the earth. We can responsibly say that those were the precursors of Music healing as we know it today.
By Giovanni Profeta2 years ago in Beat